I have planned on including a few students' postings from "Study Tips Forum" but I don't say in the course intruduction. Students will soon know after they see exam 1.
I see your point. I have been thinking about it even before I decided to turn the course online....I do know students will take the exams together, have outside help while taking the exams online. Should I try increasing the weight on discussion and decreasing the weight on exams?
What weight would you suggest?
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The 15 common mistakes in cooperative learning link is good general information to use as a checklist when creating a group activity of setting up your online course.
15 Common mistakes is a nice check list of things to avoid when creating an online course or group activity. I plan to use this for my first module, making sure I avoid these mistakes.
While designing a website in Flash, it's easy to assume that your viewers will not have some version of the Macromedia Flash player. However, you may find that a large percentage of your users either have an older version of the Flash player or none at all. For these users, it's helpful to have a non-Flash version of your website available.
I will refer students to this web site during the buidling a resume module. This web site has some great tips and exposes students to the criticial elements needed on a resume.
This should be professional, not an e-mail address like princesshottie@aol.com or iamnotworking@yahoo.com. Create an account through yahoo, gmail, or aol for free and keep all of your career searching information together. It will be easier to search.
This web site serves as an excellent resource to learning about the different critical elements or components needed in producing a stellar resume. OWL at Perdue provides some excellent guidelines to follow when developing a resume. I have highlighted some important information and also added some sticky notes and free floating notes.
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This document, along with the accompanying examples, was created
to help LPC faculty design online courses that are instructionally and
pedagogically sound. The best practices are a synthesis of strategies,
activities, design techniques, organizational tips, etc., that have been
successful in higher education. They have been approved by the LPC Distance
Education Committee and have been made available to all current and future LPC
online instructors.
Online Learning:
Remind students of intended objectives
Encourage/teach how to save/bookmark information
work online into the normal fabric of student learning
What many educators often forget is that reading and writing, although they have enjoyed primacy for hundreds of years, are very artificial ways to communicate, store and retrieve information," he says.
Prensky argues that only 10 per cent to 20 per cent of people in any society are highly literate and points out that YouTube already hosts more video content than was produced in the entire history of broadcast television, including millions of how-to videos that show, not tell.
Australian internet expert, Matthew Allen from Curtin University vigorously disagrees."We have to get over the myth that mobile phones have eaten the brains of our children and talk productively about using new communications tools."There is an untapped reservoir of interest and enthusiasm, and if you can find the right tasks [that] empower students, it's like reaching a [teaching] tipping point," Allen says.
The future role of formal education may be to help us navigate through this information in a really useful way